A HUGE thank you to everyone who attended our gloriously sunny Spring Open Day on Saturday 23rd April.

We had the incredible Remedysounds, Fugitive Orchestra and James Carey keep us entertained all day with live music and what's more they all donated their time for free. We are also incredibly grateful to the lovely Bernie fromWhiteley PA Hire who freely donated us an amazing PA for the day so the music sounded like a proper Spring festival.

​Our food marquee was a big hit, in particular thanks to our Broughton Water Buffalo Meat burgers which went down a storm. Complimented with homemade dips, sauces, salads, coleslaw, and various other appetisers, the catering staff were feeding visitors throughout the day.

There was also face painting, creative craft activities such as sunflower-building, blossom tree-building and sheep-making, animal interaction including lamb cuddling (and naming: congratulations to our winner who won the competition and has named our newest lamb Margo) as well as our ever busy farm made craft stalls.

The atmosphere was buzzing from start to finish so thank you to everyone who came along for the day. We can't wait to see you all at the next one!

We are so excited to have the incredibly talented Remedysounds perform at our Spring Open Day on Saturday 23rd April. Watch him perform LIVE on Saturday, but for a sneak preview check out his music here:

I'll admit that the pun is terrible, but we are so grateful to have the support of South Coast Building Supplies on Winchester Road.

Our successful wood workshop goes through pallets like there's no tomorrow, especially with our recent Easter holiday activities, so it was no surprise that we needed some more and as always, SCBS kindly donated a whole new load of wood for the farm.

Pallets are integral to us as we use them on an almost daily basis (as I'm sure most of the volunteers will confirm!).

A huge thank you to Branch Manager Richard Froggett and his team for delivering pallets to our doorstep whenever we need them.

We just wanted 'yew' to know that we'll never get 'board' and 'leaf' you with too many pallets. Oh stop, I'm getting 'sappy' now...

Our lovely friends at the Southern Road Dulux Decorator Centre in Southampton heard about our new project to refurbish the hand washing area within the main building and have treated us to some free paint!

Store Manager Roxanna Sanaee kindly kitted us out with enough paint to do the whole area: 5 litres of our farm green paint (called 'Gooseberry Fool 4' - don't laugh!) which will certainly bring some life in to the current magnolia, as well as a gorgeous walnut wood stain which will be used to coat the wooden 3D footprints of our logo on the wall near the coat hooks.

We're on the hunt for neutral coloured tiles (about 200 15cm x 15cm), some tile spacers and a tiler and then we can crack on with the project. Watch this space!

A huge thank you to Roxanna and Dulux for supporting the project so far.

Who we are:

Oasis Down to Earth Farm is a community centre with a difference: we are based on a farm in urban Southampton. As a not-for-profit charity, our mission is to provide a socially inclusive, happy experience where people of all abilities and differences are respected and valued. We aim to educate, empower and engage with our local community.

We offer people the opportunity to interact with animals and the natural environment. Based on a 5 acre site our facilities include a barn, dairy, large garden to grow fruit and vegetables, pond, woodland area, wood workshop and two fully equipped community buildings suitable for a range of indoor activities.